Leviticus 13 · Verse 40

Leviticus 13:40

And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
Leviticus 13:40, King James Version

Leviticus 13:40 in other translations

BSBNow if a man loses his hair and is bald, he is still clean.
WEB“If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.
ASVAnd if a man’s hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
YLT‘And when a man's head is polished, he is bald, he is clean;
DARBYAnd if a man's hair have fallen off his head, he is bald: he is clean;
BBEAnd if a man's hair has come out and he has no hair, still he is clean.
WebsterAnd the man whose hair hath fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.

What does Leviticus 13:40 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 13:40-41
40-41. bald ... forehead bald--The falling off of the hair, when the baldness commences in the back part of the head, is another symptom which creates a suspicion of leprosy. But it was not of itself a decisive sign unless taken in connection with other tokens, such as a "sore of a reddish white color" [Le 13:43]. The Hebrews as well as other Orientals were accustomed to distinguish between the forehead baldness, which might be natural, and that baldness which might be the consequence of disease.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Leviticus 13:18-44

The priest is told what judgment to make, if there were any appearance of a leprosy in old sores; and such is the danger of those who having escaped the pollutions of the world are again entangled therein. Or, in a burn by accident, ver. #(24). The burning of strife and contention often occasions the rising and breaking out of that corruption, which proves that men are unclean. Human life lies exposed to many…

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Leviticus 13:40 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְאִ֕ישׁve.'Ishand anyoneH376
כִּ֥יkiifH3588
יִמָּרֵ֖טyi.ma.Retit will become bareH4803
רֹאשׁ֑וֹro.Shohead hisH7218
קֵרֵ֥חַke.Re.ach[is] baldH7142
ה֖וּאhu'heH1931
טָה֥וֹרta.Hor[is] pureH2889
הֽוּא\׃Hu'heH1931

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Cross references for Leviticus 13:40

  • Galatians 4:13

    Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

  • Song of Solomon 5:11

    His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

  • Romans 8:10

    And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

  • 2 Kings 2:23

    And he went up from thence unto Beth–el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

  • Amos 8:10

    And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

  • Romans 6:19

    I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

  • Romans 6:12

    Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

  • Leviticus 13:41

    And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.

  • Isaiah 15:2

    He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
hair is fallen off his head. Heb. head is pilled.
41; So 5:11; Ro 6:12,19; 8:10; Ga 4:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Leviticus 13:39

    Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.

  • Leviticus 13:40

    And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.

  • Leviticus 13:41

    And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.

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Leviticus 13:40 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y el hombre, cuando se le pelare la cabeza, es calvo, mas limpio.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et si un homme a perdu les cheveux de sa tête, il est chauve: il est pur;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und wenn einem Manne das Haupthaar ausfällt, so ist er ein Glatzkopf: er ist rein;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Vir, de cujus capite capilli fluunt, calvus et mundus est: